The history of Fersman Mineralogical Museum is one of the oldest and biggest worldwide  closely related to the history of mineralogy in Russia.  Most part of famous Russian mineralogists used to work at the museum or their activity  was related to museum.  Museum was founded in 1716Ц. in Sankt Petersburg as a mineral cabinet of Kunstkammer.As a base for this mineral cabinet a collection of 1195 specimens was bought from doctor of medicine I.Gotvald from Gdansk on the order of Tzar Peter the Great. This collection was added by the material from Russian deposit and open for public  in 1719.